I met up with Umrika director Prashant Nair at the Oldenburg Film Festival, where he told me about how his living in a small town in the American Midwest fostered his inner film geek, how he caught the travel bug and why he considers Berlin the perfect place to live.

What happens before an immigrant makes the decision to leave his home country for good? Find out by watching this indie drama, which will actually show you a lot more about India than the protagonist's dream destination America (Umrika in Hindi)...

Jenna is a 13-year-old girl who dreams about becoming a super successful magazine editor in New York City at 30. As I celebrated my own 30th birthday this week, I looked back on the dreams I had at age 13 and found some striking similarities to the film…

The Vikings landed on my TV screen in 2013 and have been rumbling their way through Scandinavia, Britain and France ever since. Observing them on screen is as if you have stepped back into the Viking era yourself...